1864 – General D.P. Woodbury sent three companies from the 2nd Regiment of the US Colored Troops from Key West to Fort Myers to...

1825 – The USS Decoy left Key West with 10 convalescent invalids, who had been stricken by yellow fever. With no improvement in the...

1829 – It was proposed to establish a Temperance Society at Key West. 1950 – Rough seas from a cold front forced all 250 boats of the...

1865 – To celebrate of the recent fall of the Confederate capital of Richmond, the ships of the Eastern Gulf Blockading Squadron at Key...

1892 – The Key West Library Association was organized with Judge James W. Locke as president, Mary A. Taylor, secretary, J. Fogarty,...

1893 – The Key West Cornet Band was the “Champion of the State.” The officers of the band were: Charles A. Shavers, president; F.W....

The 1733 wreck of a Spanish treasure fleet off the Keys led to some of the first English-language newspaper reporting about the islands.

1901 – N.M. George on the yacht Privateer fishing in the Bahia Honda Channel landed a tarpon that weighed 213 pounds and measured 7...

1825 – The U.S. schooner Shark sailed from Key West to Havana with a group of pirates captured by the USS Sea Gull . The outlaws were...

1924 – The price of Key Largo land was on the rise, with oceanfront lots sometimes exceeding $200 an acre. Many landowners, though, were...

1833 – Cholera was rampant at Key West, and people were fleeing the island. A correspondent wrote, “all the garrison except one officer...

1823 – The U.S. vessels Peacock , Sea Gull , Decoy , and Mary were at Key West as part of the Navy’s anti-piracy squadron. The...

1823 – At Key West a battery was erected with eight guns, under the command of Capt. Grayson, U.S. Marine Corps. A national salute was...

1876 – The Lighthouse on Fort Jefferson was lighted. 1918 – Student aviator Thomas W. Eden was killed, and another student pilot, J.J....

1836 – Feilding A. Browne was elected mayor of Key West. 1886 – Still reeling from the devastating March 30 fire, the Relief Committee...

1823 – Commodore David Porter arrived and established the Naval Station Key West. 1848 – The wrecking schooner Levina arrived at Key...

1832 – In the city election Oliver O’Hara was elected Mayor of Key West and George E. Weaver, P.C. Greene and P.J. Fontaine were elected...

1832 – It was reported that Cuban fishermen at Key West had caught a thief and hung him from their mast without judge or jury....

1898 – Five sailors’ bodies recovered from the Battleship Maine, sunk in Havana Harbor, were buried in the Maine Plot in the Key West...

Swedish singer-songwriter Sofia Talvik will perform at the Islamorada Library branch at 3 p.m. on Monday, April 8. The Library is at...